About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

● 783 - The Austrian queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.

● 1539 - In England, the monastery at the Fountains Abbey was surrendered to the crown. It was the richest of the Cistercian houses, prior to the time of the Dissolution of all monasteries in England, under the reign of Henry VIII.

● 1716 - The first lion to be exhibited in America went on display in Boston, MA.

● 1731 - English poet William Cowper was born. He is best known for "The Poplar Trees" and "The Task."

● 1775 - The American Navy began using chaplains within its regular service.

● 1778 - In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.

● 1789 - A day of thanksgiving was set aside by President George Washington to observe the adoption of the U.S. Constitution. (National Thanksgiving days were periodically proclaimed by presidents, until in 1863 Abraham Lincoln inaugurated the practice of annually setting the fourth Thursday in November aside for Thanksgiving Day.)

● 1868 - Ignoring orders to kill only warriors, a U.S. Army contingent led by Gen. Custer massacres 103 sleeping Cheyenne--including Black Kettle, survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre--in the so-called "Battle of the Washita," Oklahoma Territory.

● 1917 - The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.

● 1918 - The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia

● 1920 - Makhno's anarchist commanders in the Crimea, fresh from victories over General Wrangel's right-wing White army, met with Trotsky's left-wing Red Army under a flag of truce. They were seized and immediately shot.

● 1921 - Second congress of l'Union Anarchiste meets for two days, in Lyon, France.

● 1922 - Charles Schulz, American cartoonist and creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip, was born.

● 1922 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.

● 1922 - Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed).

● 1939 - Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Army orchestrates the incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later.

● 1940 - The Nazis forced 500,000 Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live within a walled ghetto.

● 1941 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. In 1939, Roosevelt had signed a bill that changed the celebration of Thanksgiving to the third Thursday of November.

● 1941 - World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor - A fleet of six aircraft carriers commanded by Japanese Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo leaves Hitokapu Bay for Pearl Harbor under strict radio silence.

● 1941 - World War II: The Hull note ultimatum is delivered to Japan by the United States.

● 1942 - Shoah: 572 Norwegian Jews were deported to Auschwitz on the cargo vessel Donau. This was the first step on the journey to the death camp Auschwitz. Altogether the total number of Jews deported from Norway was 767. 25 of the deported survived.

● 1942 - The motion picture ''Casablanca,'' starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York.

● 1942 - World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.

● 1943 - The HMT Rohna became the first ship to be sunk by a guided missile. The HMT Rohna, a British transport ship carrying U.S. soldiers, was hit by the German missile off Algeria; 1,138 men were killed, including 1,015 American troops.

● 1945 - "Save Europe from Destruction" rally, London, England.

● 1949 - India's Constituent Assembly adopted the country's constitution. The country became a republic within the British Commonwealth two months later.

● 1950 - Korean War: Troops from the People's Republic of China move into North Korea and launch a massive counterattack against South Korean and American forces (Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.

● 1953 - Lords vote for commercial television; Peers back the Government's proposals for commercial television - despite fierce opposition from some rebels who fear the influence of advertisers.

● 1962 - English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'No doubt [my body] has often led me astray: but not half so often, I suspect, as my soul has led IT astray. For the spiritual evils ... arise more from the imagination than from the appetites.'

● 1965 - In the Hammaguira launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1, a 92-pound capsule on board, becoming the third country to enter space.

● 1973 - Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court that she was responsible for the 18-1/2 minute gap in a key Watergate tape. Woods was U.S. President Nixon's personal secretary and “fall guy.”

● 1975 - A federal jury in Sacramento, Calif., found Lynette ''Squeaky'' Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, guilty of trying to assassinate President Gerald R. Ford on September 5.

● 1976 - The Band play their final concert, dubbed The Last Waltz. One of the guest performers is Eric Clapton, whose band Cream also played their farewell concert on November 26, 8 years earlier.

● 1976 - Sex Pistols release their debut single "Anarchy In The UK."

● 1977 - 'Vrillon', representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for five minutes at 5:12 PM.

● 1979 - The International Olympic Committee voted to re-admit China after a 21-year absence.

● 1983 - A Brinks Mat Ltd. vault at London's Heathrow Airport was robbed by gunmen. The men made off with 6,800 gold bars worth nearly $40 million. Only a fraction of the gold has ever been recovered and only two men have been convicted in the heist.

● 1985 - US President Ronald Reagan signs over rights to his autobiography to Random House for a record US$3 million.

● 1986 - U.S. President Reagan appointed a commission headed by former Sen. John Tower to investigate his National Security Council staff after the Iran-Contra affair.

● 1986 - The New Yorker publishes Susan Sontag's AIDS short story, "The Way We Live Now"

● 1987 - The very first World Wrestling Entertainment Survivor Series took place in Richfield, Ohio

● 1988 - The U.S. denied an entry visa to PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, who was seeking permission to travel to New York to address the U.N. General Assembly.

● 1991 - Condoms are handed out to thousands of New York high school students.

● 1991 - Custer Battlefield Nat'l Monument in Montana is renamed Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. The parking lot, of course, is still mostly occupied by Winnebagos and Jeep Cherokees. Reservations are still required.

● 1992 - The British government announced that Queen Elizabeth II had volunteered to start paying taxes on her personal income. She also took her children off the public payroll. The Queen is to become the first British monarch since the 1930s to pay income tax.

● 1993 - Israeli troops shoot to death Palestinian guerrilla leader Khaled Mustafa Zer in the Arab Jerusalem suburb of Sur Bahir. This is the third killing, in eight days, of opponents of a September 13 peace accord between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). If they won’t join you, kill them.

● 1993 - Belgian general strike.

● 1995 - Two men set fire to a subway token booth in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The clerk inside was fatally burned.

● 1997 - The U.S. and North Korea held high-level discussions at the State Department for the first time.

● 1998 - Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament.

● 1998 - Hulk Hogan announced that he was retiring from pro wrestling and would run for president in 2000 which was surprisingly unsuccessful.

● Roman Catholic:● St. Conrad● St. John Berchmans● St. Alypius● St. Amator● St. Basolus● St. Bellinus● St. Dominic Doan Xuyen● St. Faustus● St. Leonard of Port Maurice● St. Martin of Arades● St. Nicon● St. Peter of Alexandria● St. Phileas● St. Siricius, Pope● St. Sylvester, abbot● Celebration of the excellence of Saint Genevieve in Paris.

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 13 (Civil Date: November 26)● St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople● Martyrs Antoninus, Nicephorus, and Germanus of Caesaria in Palestine.● Martyr Manetha of Caesaria in Palestine.● New Martyr Damascene of Mt. Athos.● St. Quintianus, Bishop of Clermont (Gaul).● Repose of schema nun Irene Myrtidiotissa of Chios (1960)● Repose of Archbishop Ioasaph of Canada (1955).

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